Keyword: kirbyhttp://www.freerepublic.com/tag/kirby/
en-usSat, 20 Aug 2016 23:34:49 GMTFocus Forum15State Dept.: &#x27;No Evidence&#x27; That &#x27;Deliberately Edited&#x27; Videotape Was Meant to Conceal Informationhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3461400/posts
The U.S. State Department on Thursday said there is &#x93;no evidence&#x94; that a &#x93;deliberately edited&#x94; videotape of its Dec. 2, 2013 State Department briefing was intended to &#x93;conceal information from the public,&#x94; even though someone requested the edit. Spokesman John Kirby said a months-long internal investigation was unable to identify the person who asked for the edit: &#x93;And while the technician recalls receiving a phone call requesting the edit, there is no evidence to indicate who might&#x92;ve placed that call or why.&#x94; Kirby also said even if the video was edited with the intent to conceal, &#x93;There was no policy...Cybercast News Servicehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3461400/posts#commentSat, 20 Aug 2016 23:34:49 GMTThe State Department Carnival Shell Gamehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3461230/posts
Around and around they go at the State Department&#x85;where the truth is, nobody knows&#x85; This week the Obama Administration and the State Department had to admit that our payment of $400 million dollars in unmarked Swiss Francs strangely coincided with the release of four Americans held hostage by the Iranians. To put out a media firestorm with more smoke and embers than a Southern California wildfire, the State Department rolled out their affable, squirrely spokesman, recently retired Rear Admiral John Kirby. Kirby is the Mister Rogers of the Beltway, who is sorely lacking in one trait that Mister Rogers emanated;...US Defense Watchhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3461230/posts#commentSat, 20 Aug 2016 05:25:25 GMTFashion Police questionhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3438263/posts
Political Correctness Gone Wildhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3438263/posts#commentThu, 9 Jun 2016 00:56:52 GMTNetanyahu Responds to Kerry&#x92;s Comments on Terror Attacks: It&#x92;s Not About Settlementshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3349313/posts
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu took issue Thursday with comments by Secretary of State John Kerry appearing to link the wave of terrorist attacks in Israel to Israeli construction in the disputed territories, and noted that the killers themselves were citing an unrelated issue &#x96; the Temple Mount &#x96; as their motivation.Eight Israelis have been killed and 70 injured in two dozen knife and gun attacks over the past month.Netanyahu accuses Palestinian leaders of inciting the violence by accusing Israel of harming the Al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount, a sensitive site revered by both Muslims, who call it Haram...CNS Newshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3349313/posts#commentFri, 16 Oct 2015 11:54:11 GMT&#x27;Nonsense&#x27;; Yaalon Slams State Dept. &#x27;Excessive Force&#x27; Claimhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3348845/posts
Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon slammed the United States on Thursday after a State Department spokesperson accused Israel of using &#x22;excessive force&#x22; when subduing Arab terrorists. While addressing ongoing Arab terror in Israel on Wednesday, State Department spokesman John Kirby asserted that &#x22;without qualifying each and every one of them, we&#x92;ve certainly seen some reports of security activity that could indicate the potential use of excessive force.&#x22; In an interview with Army Radio, Yaalon blasted Kirby&#x27;s contention, calling it utter nonsense. &#x22;We are using excessive force?&#x22; the Defense Minister asked incredulously. &#x22;If someone is wielding a knife and killing people, [then...Arutz Shevahttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3348845/posts#commentThu, 15 Oct 2015 10:49:23 GMTOfficials: Ex-Pentagon spokesman to move to State Departmenthttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3282337/posts
Former Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby will retire from the military and move to the State Department to be that agency&#x27;s new public face, U.S. officials said Wednesday. Secretary of State John Kerry tapped Kirby to be the department&#x27;s spokesman because of his deep experience and knowledge of international issues and the fact that he is widely seen as a non-political face, the officials said. Kirby will replace Jen Psaki, a former spokeswoman for President Barack Obama&#x27;s presidential campaign, who left the State Department last month to become White House communications director...[SNIP]...The officials said acting State Department spokeswoman Marie...Big Story - APhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3282337/posts#commentThu, 23 Apr 2015 17:05:45 GMTMarie Harf passed over for promotion in favor of white malehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3282185/posts
Poor Marie Harf! Shortly after attaining immortality by having her name become a verb, she suffered the ultimate indignity: her boss left, and a white male has been hired to fill the vacancy instead of promoting her. Jamie Crawford and Elise Labott of CNN report: Rear Admiral John Kirby, the Pentagon&#x27;s chief spokesman, will shift over to the State Department, according to a senior administration official. In replacing Jen Psaki, who recently returned to the White House to serve as communications director, Kirby would be the first spokesman to have represented both the Defense and State departments. Kirby, who is...American Thinkerhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3282185/posts#commentThu, 23 Apr 2015 12:09:49 GMTFor United States Navy rear admirals, a bad week
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It may not have been a shot heard around the world, but it certainly was a shot that reverberated throughout the United States Navy. No, it was not the scandal involving the censure of three U.S. Navy rear admirals for being on the take, which is bad enough. It was Navy war hero Sen. John McCain calling a fourth rear admiral &#x22;an idiot.&#x22;lowell sunhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3259535/posts#commentFri, 20 Feb 2015 14:09:09 GMTPentagon Spokesman Resigns After New SecDef&#x92;s First Day on Jobhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3259001/posts
Navy Rear Admiral John Kirby, the press secretary of the Pentagon and they guy you always see explaining American military action on television, announced his sudden resignation today, one day after the new Secretary of Defense was sworn into office.Mediaitehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3259001/posts#commentWed, 18 Feb 2015 23:50:46 GMTVacuum salesman invited to teen with autism&#x92;s birthday party moves crowd to tearshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3249016/posts
CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. &#x97; Since Dylan Green was 2 years old, he has had a passion for vacuum cleaners. Dylan, who has autism, was never into &#x93;normal&#x94; toys, his mother Jodie told WTVR. The middle school student turned 14 over the weekend and celebrated his birthday with a party that included close friends, family and a vacuum salesman. In an effort to help make her son&#x92;s birthday special, Dylan&#x92;s mother sent an email to the Kirby Company, the Cleveland-based makers of the Kirby vacuum. &#x93;I am reaching out to you in hopes for an answer to an unusual request for...FOX 17 Newshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3249016/posts#commentWed, 21 Jan 2015 05:06:27 GMTReport: Troops, vets to get checked for chemical exposure in Iraqhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3221563/posts
The Pentagon will offer medical examinations and long-term health monitoring to servicemembers and veterans exposed to chemical warfare agents in Iraq as part of a review of how the military handled encounters with chemical munitions during the American occupation, The New York Times reported Wednesday. An Oct. 15 Times story found that while the United States had gone to war looking for an active weapons of mass destruction program, troops instead quietly found and suffered from the remnants of the long abandoned arsenal. Since that article, which detailed instances of exposure that the military kept secret in some cases for...Stars and Stripeshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3221563/posts#commentFri, 31 Oct 2014 04:32:14 GMTWendy Davis attacks Greg Abbott on rape, but looks the other way for Planned Parenthoodhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3192333/posts
Wendy Davis has released a new campaign ad attacking Greg Abbott for how he sided in an old state Supreme Court case. A woman was raped by a contractor for the Kirby vacuum cleaner company, and she and her husband sued Kirby &#x97; the rapist was a sexual predator, and Kirby had not run a background check on the salesman. Abbott, who was a state Supreme Court justice at the time, was one of three dissenting opinions, and felt that Kirby was not responsible. In the ad, Davis insinuates that a company should be held responsible for the actions of...Live Actionhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3192333/posts#commentWed, 13 Aug 2014 14:34:45 GMT[CATHOLIC CAUCUS] Visit Me by Nighthttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3128869/posts
While praying before the Most Holy Sacrament at night:A great work of love is being done here, one that proceeds directly from My Eucharistic Heart to glorify My Father and to redeem the world, for the work of redemption is continued in the Sacrament of My Body and Blood until the end of time. . . .I am here [in the Most Blessed Sacrament] for you and for the whole world. Take your place here before Me, and abide before My Face, close to My Heart that is all love.It is no little thing for a poor human creature of...Vultus Christihttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3128869/posts#commentMon, 3 Mar 2014 02:53:43 GMTThe Secret of My Saintshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3128138/posts
You could have come sooner. I was waiting for you. I am always waiting for you: I wait for all My priests in the Sacrament of My Love, but they make little of Me, and of the fact that I wait for them day and night.If only they knew what awaits them in My presence : the plenitude of mercy, and rivers of living water to cleanse them, to reinvigorate their priesthood, and to sanctify them.This was the secret of my saints, of the holy friends whom I have made known to you :Dom Marmion, the Cur&#xE9; of Ars,Saint Peter...Vultus Christihttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3128138/posts#commentFri, 28 Feb 2014 23:16:35 GMTTo love and adore always [Catholic Caucus]http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3108626/posts
For Catherine Mectilde de Bar, the adoration of Our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament is not an occasional devotion; it is, rather, the direction given to one&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99;s whole life. Adoration is not perpetual because one never leaves one&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99;s prie-dieu before the altar; it is perpetual when one makes the Most Holy Eucharist the treasure of one&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99;s life. &#xE2;&#x80;&#x9C;For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.&#xE2;&#x80;&#x9D; (Matthew 6:21) In a remarkable conference for the feast of the Epiphany 1694, Mother Mectilde writes: Our vow of adoration binds us indispensably to live only from the life of Jesus...Vultus Christihttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3108626/posts#commentSun, 5 Jan 2014 20:32:30 GMTPolice: Hawarden, Iowa, man shoots at vacuum sales crewhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3064972/posts
HAWARDEN, Iowa | Police said a Hawarden, Iowa, man shot at three vacuum cleaner salesmen on Saturday. No one was hurt. Samuel Harrison, 50, was charged with felony going armed with intent and intimidation with a dangerous weapon, and misdemeanor assault and operating while intoxicated - second offense. Harrison shot at the Omaha-area sales crew in the 4800 block of Buchanan Avenue about 3:15 p.m. Saturday, police said. No one on the crew was hit. &#x22;For whatever reason, Mr. Harrison became upset about them in the area and he fired off several rounds out of his shotgun,&#x22; said Sioux County...Sioux City Journalhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3064972/posts#commentTue, 10 Sep 2013 15:29:34 GMT[CATHOLIC CAUCUS] Let us test and examine our wayshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2662327/posts
Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the Lord! (Lamentations 3:40) Again: Time for An Intervention I originally wrote this post last September, saying that my heart was heavy because it had been brought to my attention that &#x22;accidents&#x22; during the distribution of Holy Communion under both species occur not infrequently in parishes, i.e., the Most Precious Blood is spilled during the administration of Holy Communion from the chalice. Recently I learned of other such &#x22;accidents.&#x22; And so I decided to post this entry again. Even if such &#x22;accidents&#x22; occur no more than twice or three times...Vultus Christihttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2662327/posts#commentMon, 24 Jan 2011 15:39:05 GMTAdoratio 2011: International Conference in Romehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2641160/posts
The First International Conference on Eucharistic Adoration will be held in Rome (Italy) from June 20 to June 23, 2011, with the intention of promoting the desire of the Magisterium of the Catholic Church to see Perpetual Adoration spread to Parishes and Dioceses around the world. The faithful must seek to receive and to venerate the Most Holy Sacrament with piety and devotion, eager to welcome the Lord Jesus with faith (Pope Benedict XVI May 11, 2007) Holy Mass is in itself the Church&#x27;s greatest act of adoration: &#x22;No one eats of this flesh&#x22;, as St Augustine writes, &#x22;without...Vultus Christihttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2641160/posts#commentSat, 11 Dec 2010 17:22:42 GMTState: Kirby&#x27;s vacuum sales practices &#x27;unethical&#x27; (Connecticut)
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The state may go to court to get the sellers of Kirby vacuums to clean up its act. Jerry Farrell, commissioner of the state Department of Consumer Protection, asked the state attorney general&#x27;s office Monday to pursue legal action against The Kirby Co., which uses independent distributors to sell its vacuums door-to-door nationwide. The legal action also would target Kirby&#x27;s parent company, The Scott Fetzer Co., as well as United Consumer Financial Services and seven state-based independent distributors, including two in the region. In a news release Monday, Farrell said his department is &#x22;seeking a legal remedy and resolution that...Waterbury Republican-Americanhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2624463/posts#commentTue, 9 Nov 2010 22:54:30 GMT[CATHOLIC CAUCUS] The Chain that Sets Freehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2603444/posts
Father Francesco Bamonte&#x27;s witness to the power of the Holy Rosary in his book, Possessioni diabolici ed esorcismo (Paoline, 2006) so impressed me that I decided to translate it for the readers of Vultus Christi. Father Bamonte is one of the teachers of the course on Exorcism and the Prayer of Deliverance given at the Pontifical Atheneum Regina Apostolorum in Rome. Concerning the Holy Rosary, once while the priest placed a rosary around the neck of the person who was being exorcised, all of a sudden the demon began crying out, &#x22;It is crushing me, it weighs on me, it...Vultus Christihttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2603444/posts#commentThu, 7 Oct 2010 22:45:07 GMTWounded in the house of them that loved Mehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2600308/posts
And they shall say to him: What are these wounds in the midst of your hands? And he shall say: With these I was wounded in the house of them that loved me. (Zechariah 13:6) Today I received this message from a friend in the state of New York : &#x22;Four ciboria were sold/given to a local antiques dealer. All of them contained particles of the Most Blessed Sacrament, and one ciborium was from a church that closed in 1996. Imagine, Our Lord was in there for that long.&#x22; A Cancer at the Heart of the Church How and why...Vultus Christihttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2600308/posts#commentSat, 2 Oct 2010 15:34:01 GMTQuis resistet Sancti Michaelis gladio? [on St. Michael the Archangel]http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2598419/posts
September 29, Saints Michael and All Angels Angels Everywhere One of the most striking things about Rome&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99;s churches -- and about Italian churches in general -- is that they are full of representations of the angels. American churches in contrast, especially those built in the last fifty years, are strangely devoid of angelic imagery. In Italian churches there are angels everywhere: all sorts of angels. There are majestic angels of graceful athletic appearance, angels in splendid apparel playing musical instruments, and playful little angels with fat cheeks and chubby legs. In Italian churches, one is always conscious of praising...Vultus Christihttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2598419/posts#commentWed, 29 Sep 2010 16:14:27 GMT[CATHOLIC CAUCUS] Persevering in Prayerhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2582733/posts
From time to time, I present anew some of the prayers that I composed for the Spiritual Mothers of Priests and for all, men and women alike, who pray, suffer, and offer themselves for the sanctification of priests. Here are three of these prayers: Prayer for Vocations Lord Jesus Christ, Who callest to Thy service whomsoever Thou wilt, let the light of Thy Face and the tenderness of Thy Heart rest upon the young men of our own parishes and families. Grant that those whom Thou hast chosen from among us may hear Thy invitation and respond to Thy call...Vultus Christihttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2582733/posts#commentFri, 3 Sep 2010 13:28:14 GMT[CATHOLIC CAUCUS] God: always more ready to hear than we to prayhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2566843/posts
11th Sunday After PentecostToday&#x27;s Introit, well served by its sturdy 5th mode melody, is a ringing affirmation of the presence of the living God in His holy place. The Church, and, in its own way, the monastery, which is a microcosm of the Church (an ecclesiola, a little Church) fulfills the words of the Prophet-King: God is in His holy place; God who maketh men of one mind to dwell in a house; He shall give power and strength to His people. V. Let God arise and let His enemies be scattered: and let them that hate Him flee from...Vultus Christihttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2566843/posts#commentSun, 8 Aug 2010 17:19:30 GMT[CATHOLIC CAUCUS] The Despairing Priesthttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2550283/posts
When A Priest Hates His PriesthoodA priest, recently accused of stealing funds from his parish and of using it to pay for certain vices, is quoted in the news as having said that he had come &#x22;to hate his priesthood.&#x22; This statement was, to my mind, more disturbing and painful than anything else in the reports of the media. How does a priest arrive at a point in his life where he hates his priesthood? Into DespairThe priest who hates his priesthood, hates his very self, his truest self, his sacred identity. The priesthood is not a profession that one...Vultus Christihttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2550283/posts#commentSat, 10 Jul 2010 18:54:19 GMT